Policies for rural areas have become an important but complex policy field in the EuropeanUnion`s Common Agricultural Policy. The purpose of this paper is to report on amethodological approach pursued to model the allocation of EAFRD (European AgriculturalFund for Rural Development) funds in...

Politicians and farm lobbyists frequently use the argument that agricultural policy is necessaryto safeguard jobs in agriculture. We explore whether this is true by conducting an econometricex-post evaluation of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the threeEast German...

Economic research on structural change in agriculture has repeatedly induced controversies aboutbasic theoretical concepts, such as rational behaviour and equilibrium, and their analytical andpolitical implications. To contribute to the epistemological dimension of this debate, the article...